A hearing for Cespedes is to be held at U.S. District Court in Concord at 11 a.m. today, to be followed by a news conference attended by Kacavas, Manchester Police Chief David Mara and officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Mara did not return a call for comment on Monday night.

Cespedes received an honorable service medal in 2011, along with three other officers for their roles in preventing a woman from committing suicide by jumping off a bridge.

Cespedes was credited with engaging the woman in an extended conversation while a fellow officer positioned himself to pull her from the ledge.

Cespedes joined the Manchester force in 2007 when he was 30 years old, after serving as a New York City police officer for five years, according to an article that year in the Union Leader. Cespedes was a native of Brooklyn, N.Y.; he and his wife had four children, the article said.